I don't watch much television or film, but from what I have seen, there is no recent trend of bad people getting away with it leaving a bunch of defeated heroes and jaded audiences. This century we've gotten LotR, Harry Potter, and the MCU, all very simple stories about Good Guys winning in the end.
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Over the same amount of time, there have been 4 tv shows with wide ranging cultural influence (saw my very first little girl named Khaleesi just the other day) that I think support the idea better. Those are The Sopranos, Lost, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones. Of those, I've only seen Breaking Bad
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While the format of television allows for more characters generally and potentially a lot more time to suffuse them with moral complexity as opposed to film, even when the tv shows focus on anti-heroes as protagonists, eventually they still get some sort of ultimate comeuppance, don't they?
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